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She didn't. A lady named Mrs. Pryor, who had power of attorney for her estate, did. A quote from an interview with Mrs. Pryor....Quote:
Originally Posted by Back
"Winding down the interview, McConnell asked: “Would you say that Ayn Rand practiced what she preached?”
Pryor replied, laughing: “Yes, that’s why I had so much trouble with her.”
“You mean the Social Security issue and all that?” McConnell said.
“Yes,” Pryor said."
Now work out the amount she paid in before receiving that money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warriorbird
I pay in quite a lot of taxes compared to some folks. It doesn't mean that if I suddenly get a refund it isn't a benefit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thondalar
Wow. You really believe that if I take a lot of your money and give you back a little bit of it....you've benefited?Quote:
Originally Posted by Warriorbird
You must be a hit in Vegas.
Isabel Paterson and Rose Wilder Lane didn't. They stuck to their guns. Ayn...well she folded like a cheap suit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Back
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Evva Joan Pryor, who had been a social worker in New York in the 1970s, was interviewed in 1998 by Scott McConnell, who was then the director of communications for the Ayn Rand Institute. In his book, 100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand , McConnell basically portrays Rand as first standing on principle, but then being mugged by reality. Stephens points to this exchange between McConnell and Pryor.
“She was coming to a point in her life where she was going to receive the very thing she didn’t like, which was Medicare and Social Security,” Pryor told McConnell. “I remember telling her that this was going to be difficult. For me to do my job she had to recognize that there were exceptions to her theory. So that started our political discussions. From there on – with gusto – we argued all the time.
The initial argument was on greed,” Pryor continued. “She had to see that there was such a thing as greed in this world. Doctors could cost an awful lot more money than books earn, and she could be totally wiped out by medical bills if she didn’t watch it. Since she had worked her entire life, and had paid into Social Security, she had a right to it. She didn’t feel that an individual should take help.”
A little knowledge really is worse than none at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by cwolff
Don't worry, I went ahead and posted some of the facts you left out, for obvious reasons.
So when you fall into bad ends beyond your control you expect people to just walk past not giving a fuck?Quote:
Originally Posted by Thondalar
You really think your tax refunds aren't a benefit to you? I have a microbrew habit you could finance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thondalar
"Some people can’t afford medical care in the U.S. But they are necessarily a small minority in a free or even semi-free country. If they were the majority, the country would be an utter bankrupt and could not even think of a national medical program. As to this small minority, in a free country they have to rely solely on private, voluntary charity. Yes, charity, the kindness of the doctors or of the better off—charity, not right, i.e. not their right to the lives or work of others. And such charity, I may say, was always forthcoming in the past in America. The advocates of Medicaid and Medicare under LBJ did not claim that the poor or old in the ’60′s got bad care; they claimed that it was an affront for anyone to have to depend on charity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Back
But the fact is: You don’t abolish charity by calling it something else. If a person is getting health care for nothing, simply because he is breathing, he is still getting charity, whether or not any politician, lobbyist or activist calls it a “right.” To call it a right when the recipient did not earn it is merely to compound the evil. It is charity still—though now extorted by criminal tactics of force, while hiding under a dishonest name."
-Leonard Peikoff
...sigh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thondalar